< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Who says humanity needs saving? 28 February 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN WE SAVE HUMANITY FROM FALLING EVEN MORE? It is one of the trade secrets of all the religions to propose propaganda that humanity has to be saved. It is a very strange idea, but it is so old that nobody seems to look into the implications....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 You simply are 16 August 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium OUR BELOVED MASTER, BASUI SAID: IMAGINE A CHILD SLEEPING NEXT TO ITS PARENTS AND DREAMING IT IS BEING BEATEN OR IS PAINFULLY SICK. THE PARENTS CANNOT HELP THE CHILD, NO MATTER HOW MUCH IT SUFFERS, FOR NO ONE CAN ENTER THE DREAMING MIND OF ANOTHER. IF THE CHILD COULD AWAKEN ITSELF, IT COULD BE FREED OF THIS SUFFERING AUTOMATICALLY....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Your birthright: to take flight 29 January 1985 pm in Lao Tzu Grove Question 1 OSHO, SEEING AND HEARING YOU SPEAK, ONE THING CONTINUES TO STRIKE ME: FROM YOUR EARLIEST CHILDHOOD, UP UNTIL THE LATEST SPLIT SECOND, YOU HAVE ALWAYS HAD SO MUCH SELF-RESPECT AND SO MUCH SELF-DELIGHT. ARE WE ALL CAPABLE OF SO MUCH? MAN is not aware of what he is capable unless he comes to realize it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Zen – your very essence 27 May 1988 pm in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium Maneesha, Before I start a new series of talks on Zen – called THIS. THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS – I want to devote today to preparation for the coming Zen anecdotes... absurd yet profound, without any rationality but still as truthful as language allows. I am wearing sunglasses in the night; it is due to the courtesy of President Ronald Reagan....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 Zen: The Koan of Life 27 December 1980 am in Buddha Hall The first question Question 1 OSHO, DO YOU REALLY THINK ZEN IS FULL OF ZEST, ZIP, ZAP AND ZING? Samadhi, Zen is not a religion, it is living life in its totality, herenow. Religions are always postponing life: they are giving you beautiful illusions about life somewhere in the future, far away, beyond death....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 7 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho speaks to a sannyasin:] Much is going to happen. Just allow it. That is the greatest thing. It is very easy to do something because one remains the doer and the ego is fulfilled. But the greatest problem arises when you have to allow something. It is simple but it becomes complex because of the ego....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 25 January 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The Encounter Group are at darshan. The leader says it was nothing special... every group is different.] Mm, it has to be so because the group depends on the people. It should depend more on the people who participate... and no rigid structure should be given to it – so it remains loose, flexible....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 25 March 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veera means courageous, prem means love – courageous in love. And that is the only courage there is... all else is cowardice. So be more loving, and love completely unconditionally, mm? That is going to be your flowering of being. [A sannyasin says she is afraid of going back to the West: I’m afraid that all the things I’ve dropped will come back again, and that I will drown in them....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bodha means awareness, ananda means bliss – awareness, bliss. Misery consists of unawareness. Misery has no outer cause for it, the cause is inner. You go on throwing the responsibility outside, but that is just an excuse. Yes, it is triggered from the outside but the outside does not create it. Somebody insults you: the insult comes from the outside but the anger is inside you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, USA Okay, how many books have I talked about in the postscript – forty? “Thirty, I think, Osho.” Thirty? Good. Such a relief, because so many books are still waiting. You could understand my relief only if you had to choose one book out of a thousand, and that’s exactly what I am doing. The postscript continues....